Telecollaborative Lesson

A telecollaborative lesson is a tool of the 21st century, to help the students aware of the world that surrounds them. The internet has certainly had a great impact on education nowadays. Students have endless access to information that several years ago would take weeks or even months to obtain. Telecollaborative means that the students will work in groups, that every member is going to have a respected and important role on the development of the project, but their experiences will not be limited to their own. Students will have the possibility of getting to know a culture on the other side of the globe. Students have internet access, and work not only with their fellow classmates, but with students living in a different country, state, or city. They will be exposed and they will learn from people their own age, what it means to be a child, a teenager in a different society. They are encouraged to see how it is to live in a different place; to understand the problems, difficulties, advantages, customs, traditions, etc, but not from the teacher, who may have never visit the place in question, but from habitants their own age, who they may feel related to. The students can contrast their own experiences, which is a great tool for learning, since students tend to listen and learn from their peers, in a language and point of view they can easily understand and agree and/or discuss. Telecollaborative learning gives young minds the opportunity to explore a culture, to analyze it and look at their own background and ethnicity in a different way. Students learn to appreciate more their own traditions and way of life. They can get countless knowledge also in history and geography, and better yet, it opens their eyes to see further, it increases their sense of awareness, and it gives them a better idea of why the world moves the way it does.